Bailey’s AKC Agility Debut!

Good job, Bailey and Charlene! Hopefully Ember will follow in momma’s footsteps. She’s already worked on some equipment, like the tunnel, table, etc. and she thought that was a piece of cake!

Ms Bailey had two runs today- another FAST and her debut in standard. She did great in FAST, and ran with more confidence. She earned her second Q.

A little while later she got to do standard. I did not have any real vision of qualifying, as I don’t think I’ve prepared her well enough to do the teeter away from home yet, so I was ready to pull her off the teeter and just run the other parts. Much to my surprise she charged up the teeter; it was also to her surprise, but she survived the shock. She was still recovering mentally from the teeter so ran by the next jump, but she came back okay and qualified. I was shocked- figured the teeter was a flyoff and an NQ. Everyone else said no- it was an ugly teeter (bone jarring), but technically legal.

Tomorrow we are going to train at a friend’s barn and try out a new teeter and a USDAA tire (another thing I’m not sure she will like).

We have one more AKC next Friday at the same place, where I’ll find out if the teeter freaked her out. After that we have no trial plans, as March has only expensive AKC trials in my area and I don’t think she is ready for USDAA.